Reflections on Letters

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"Reorienting One's Vision: The Return"

I think the 10+1 exercises have really helped all of us to begin the process of deep thinking. I think about these assignments a lot in my daily life now, especially when I'm doing schoolwork.

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"Recounting Anecdotes and Honoring Lived Experiences"

The information in our fishbowls is important because it included the felt experiences that each of us go through. The congregation of all of our experiences are one big story, the story of our lives. This is how we honor ourselves.

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"Constructing Social Memories"

I think most businesses operate by synthesizing their past, present, and future. Many businesses look back on what they've done in the past (what worked and didn't work), what they're doing now, and what they can do to improve/where the business is going in the future.

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"Cybernetics and Your Fishbowls"

I agree that we are never linear, in the fishbowls or in life. I look forward to adding more to the art we call the fishbowl.

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"Please Fact-Check Your Virtual Products in Your Fishbowls"

We are participating, observing, and interacting with each other everyday in the fishbowl. There's a lot of self-reflection involved in making these posts and completing the 10+1 assignments.

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"Complex Adaptive Systems: The Art of Improvisation"

I feel that we improvise for every letter response. We don't know what we're going to be reading in each letter, and the response is immediate. It happens as we read and after we have just finished reading. There's no script/guidelines to follow for our assignments which makes them improvisions.

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"It Was Good to See You Again"

I personally feel that text always evokes images, at least in my head. I was actually talking about this with my friends the other day. Some of them admitted that they think in words most of the time, and I said I think in visuals. The words I hear and read appear as pictures or colors in my head.

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"Looking at Ourselves Again"

It was interesting to explore how all the facets mentioned in this letter came together this semester.

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"Reflecting on One's History"

Our fishbowls are a historic network of our individual ideas that show our thought processes and ideas from the start of this course until now. They are a construction of our mentality.

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"Thoughts, the Morning After Thanksgiving"

Number 3 of this letter stood out to me. I like to distance myself from a lot of new things that happen in my life before I react to them, especially if that new thing is bad or could be bad. I don't like to react immediately because I don't like to be irrational, and sometimes when you react immediately to things, it is based on emotion rather than thought. "return to look"

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"Maturity and the Fishbowl"

I think maturity is something that you learn depending on the situations you grow up in. Some kids have to grow up too fast and have the mentality of an 18 year old at 12. Some poeple never have to grow up, and have the mentality of a 16 year old at 35. It's all relative.

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"Voguing"

Voguing is a joke in today's world. It's what our generation would call a "meme". I suppose you are presenting yourself in a certain way when you do it, but I think in modern day circumstances, it has no relation to business.